Trade Secrets: reaching for the sky, cash in hand

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Blink and you’ll miss it — that is to say if, in your gleaming tower in the City or Canary Wharf, you’re bothering to look out of the window at all.

But then London’s Air Ambulance is almost certainly is in a hurry, heading out from or back to the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel on an emergency, one where the patient is particularly seriously hurt or ill, one where an ambulance just won’t do.

And it’s not only London. High-tech helicopters are in operation across the UK. On average, an emergency air ambulance takes off every ten minutes, flying 365